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Acknowledgements & Licenses
Neural Core is built with the open-source and open-model components below. The same license texts ship inside the app (Settings › About › Acknowledgements & Licenses). The full notices file is THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Neural Core © 2026 Tyler Duncan [PLACEHOLDER: change to Valorian Systems LLC after the IP assignment].
Bundled AI model
| Model | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B, fit16gib GGUF quantization (redistributed unmodified) |
|---|---|
| License | OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1): full text · openmdw.ai/license/1-1 |
| Notice | Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. Licensed under the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1. |
| Origin | Base model (NVIDIA) · GGUF quantization (Alberto-Codes) · quantizer’s license copy: text |
| SHA-256 | 187858b04dccae82a8c6fbf8bc5f0a62cfedb21d2f5aef3b4589456b09b6cd75 |
Neural Core is powered by NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B, used under OpenMDW-1.1. Not endorsed by NVIDIA. (“Neural Core” is both the app’s name and the name of its bundled model; it is not an NVIDIA product name.)
NVIDIA and Nemotron are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation, used only to identify the bundled model. Neural Core is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by NVIDIA.
Software
| Component | License | Text |
|---|---|---|
| llama.cpp / ggml (release b11913), © 2023–2026 The ggml authors | MIT | License |
| stb_image v2.30 (Sean Barrett), used inside llama.cpp | MIT (elected; dual MIT / public domain) | License |
| YaRN RoPE scaling code in ggml (Jeffrey Quesnelle & Bowen Peng) | MIT | Notice |
Neural Core uses no third-party Swift packages. Apple system frameworks and SF Symbols are used under Apple’s terms. Windows and Linux versions will list their own components here when released.
This website
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